Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
FEBRUARY 24, 2006
Davos retrospective I'm looking back at my visit to Davos a few weeks ago, and pulling together some of the highlights. I've also had the benefit of getting some great photos sent by other people that I can use (thanks, Marketa!). The big one was taking my son, Jimmy, with me. We had a great time, and seeing things through Jimmy's eyes was quite helpful.
Forum One
FEBRUARY 28, 2006
Skip to Navigation Careers News Client login About Us Services Our Work Blogs Events Contact Us Home › Blogs › Influence Social Networking and #AIDS2010 Suzanne Rainey in Influence 15 Jul 2010 There’s a flurry of action this week as we await the start of the XVIII International AIDS Conference (#AIDS2010) in Vienna, Austria, next week. I wish I was able to attend, but am glad that many of my clients have the opportunity to go.
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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
FEBRUARY 28, 2006
My colleague, Cheryl Hanback , is organizing the annual "Night Before The Day of Service Dinner." This has been annual event since the conference in Orlando back in 2002. She's got a hold of the Seattle restaurant list from Holly Ross compiled by Phil Klein and picked one that she says is: It???s cheap It???s funky It???s got a bar It???s got a big room It???
Have Fun - Do Good
FEBRUARY 28, 2006
Nancy White tagged me to participate in an interesting meme. "What five resources - online or otherwise - would you point people to, if you wanted to give them an entry into your field of expertise?" One of the aspects of the nonprofit consulting that I do is to help nonprofits to set up volunteer programs. Here are five resources I would recommend to someone who wanted to become a Manager Volunteers for a nonprofit: Cypbervpm list serv An international discussion group for volunteer managers.
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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog
FEBRUARY 27, 2006
What has sixteen legs and three teeth? The front row in a banjo workshop. Mommy, I want to grow up and be a banjo player! Now honey, you know you can't do both. The jokes that come out of our work, whatever it is that we do, can reflect real points of frustration built into the structure of that work. Let's look at technology assistance: there are well-known jokes about the difficulties that occur in IT consulting that have been posted over and over again on the net for years.
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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
FEBRUARY 23, 2006
Big news from Google.org The most anticipated hire in social entrepreneurship for years has been made. Larry Brilliant is joining Google to run their Google.org foundation, according to this article from the SF Chronicle. And Larry's background with founding the Well and Seva Foundation is especially notable. Seva sent my buddy, David Green, to work with the Aravind Eye Hospital to some great results!
Forum One
FEBRUARY 28, 2006
Skip to Navigation Careers News Client login About Us Services Our Work Blogs Events Contact Us Home › Blogs › Influence Social Networking and #AIDS2010 Suzanne Rainey in Influence 15 Jul 2010 There’s a flurry of action this week as we await the start of the XVIII International AIDS Conference (#AIDS2010) in Vienna, Austria, next week. I wish I was able to attend, but am glad that many of my clients have the opportunity to go.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
FEBRUARY 24, 2006
That we will address during the session on Nonprofit Blogging at the NTC Conference in Seattle next month. The panelists are John Lorance from CompuMentor, Nancy White from Full Circle, and Marshall Kirkpatrick. Your nonprofit should consider a blog if. You want to express the human of your organization. You want to enable easy ways for people to share knowledge and information.
Have Fun - Do Good
FEBRUARY 26, 2006
A while ago I posted an entry about how to Start Your Basic Blog. I don't have as much experience with podcasting considering I just put my first one up this week, but I thought I would share how I did it for anyone who was interested in producing their own. Because of my husband's work, I had access to professional sound equipment: A Marantz PMD 660 Solid State Digital Recorder, (another professional option is an M-audio recorder ), a dynamic microphone, Electro-Voice 635A , and a cable to conn
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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog
FEBRUARY 22, 2006
In a couple of posts a few weeks ago, I warned that information that is just in people's heads and not shared organizationally cannot be considered organizational knowledge, and suggested the reuse of routine communications as a path to capturing this knowledge in a way that does not create endless new documentation tasks. But Sharon Richardson in a thought-provoking post on her Joining Dots blog proposes that the emphasis on documents of any sort is a very limited view of knowledge management.I
AFP Blog
FEBRUARY 23, 2006
Reuters AlertNet - Microsoft Earmarks $41 Million in Software, Cash for Disaster Relief : "Microsoft Earmarks $41 Million in Software, Cash for Disaster Relief. 22 Feb 2006 22:38:00 GMT Source: Mercy Corps Website: [link]. REDMOND, Wash. Feb. 22, 2006 Microsoft Corp. today announced it is donating $41 million in software and cash to NetHope and the Interagency Working Group on Emergency Capacity Building Project (ECB).
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
FEBRUARY 11, 2006
Counting the Human Cost in East Timor Our Human Rights Group just released the statistical report detailing widespread and systematic violations in Timor-Leste during the period 1974-1999. This report provides additional detail to the Timorese truth commission's recently released report "Chega!" ("Enough!"). Benetech's statistical analysis establishes that at least 102,800 (+/- 11,000) Timorese died as a result of the conflict.
Forum One
FEBRUARY 13, 2006
Skip to Navigation Careers News Client login About Us Services Our Work Blogs Events Contact Us Home › Blogs › Influence Social Networking and #AIDS2010 Suzanne Rainey in Influence 15 Jul 2010 There’s a flurry of action this week as we await the start of the XVIII International AIDS Conference (#AIDS2010) in Vienna, Austria, next week. I wish I was able to attend, but am glad that many of my clients have the opportunity to go.
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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
FEBRUARY 23, 2006
I came across a post from Kevin Lim who writes about social technology and recently posted some information from his Intro to Blogs Workshop. His focus not on the writing process, but the importance of reading blogs and knowing what's going on out there. He includes an excellent resource list in his post - I like the references to the "soft side of blogging," especially " Why Web Blog?
Have Fun - Do Good
FEBRUARY 26, 2006
While surfing for some more BlogHers to add to the Nonprofit and NGO BlogHer blogroll, I came across the REAL hot 100: See How Hot Smart Can Be. The REAL hot 100 is a list featuring young women from around the country who are breaking barriers, fighting stereotypes, and making a difference in their communities or the nation. The REAL hot 100 will compile a list of young women who are REALLY hot, and publish it, in magazine format, timed to coincide with Maxim’s release next year.
Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog
FEBRUARY 21, 2006
So let's beat that dead horse one more time. because Jeffrey Zeldman said it so well in his A List Apart blog last month. You know which dead horse I mean - is Web 2.0 some exciting new wave non-profits need to catch, or is it just a bunch of marketing hype? That old debate. Zeldman's posting comes down right where I am. Of course technology is developing rapidly and there are new tools and techniques you'd be a fool not to explore -- in fact there are quite a few I will urge you to take a look
AFP Blog
FEBRUARY 14, 2006
TechSoup Content Now Available Under Creative Commons License :: PNNOnline :: : "TechSoup Content Now Available Under Creative Commons License Posted by: laurakujawski on Tuesday, February 14, 2006 Topic Special Features TechSoup, the nonprofit technology Web site, today announced that most of its content is now available for reprint to nonprofits, schools, and libraries under a Creative Commons License.
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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
FEBRUARY 3, 2006
New Benetech Website, thanks to Skoll Foundation Thanks to the miracle of data, you're now able to see the new Benetech website, live at www.benetech.org! This new site is the culmination of several months work from our staff and our web development partner, Mile7. It's our first complete overhaul of the site in more than four years, and we needed to reflect the maturity and breadth of Benetech's initiatives.
Forum One
FEBRUARY 1, 2006
Skip to Navigation Careers News Client login About Us Services Our Work Blogs Events Contact Us Home › Blogs › Influence Social Networking and #AIDS2010 Suzanne Rainey in Influence 15 Jul 2010 There’s a flurry of action this week as we await the start of the XVIII International AIDS Conference (#AIDS2010) in Vienna, Austria, next week. I wish I was able to attend, but am glad that many of my clients have the opportunity to go.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
FEBRUARY 22, 2006
Will you be at NTC in Seattle? Will you be in town on the evening of Wednesday, March 22nd? Are you involved with NET2 or want to learn more? Interested in connecting with other NTC conference attendees for dinner at a Seattle landmark and talk about using new web tools for social change? Here's the plans. Netsquared Dinner at NTC. Wednesday, March 22nd at 8:30 p.m.
Have Fun - Do Good
FEBRUARY 25, 2006
Big thanks to my dad for sending me a New York Times article about social enterprise that mentions Fast Company's 2006 Social Capitalist Awards. Here are the 25 winners (I was going to include links to all the orgs, but something is wonky with Blogger today and it was taking FOREVER to create the links. If you click on the Fast Company article, they have links to all the orgs.).
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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog
FEBRUARY 16, 2006
Many of us were digusted earlier this month to learn that once again Yahoo had cooperated with the Chinese authorities' request to turn over a citizen's private records, this time the discussion group threads of 35 year-old Li Zhi. The information was used to stick the dissident and former civil servant with an eight-year sentence on the charge of inciting subversion.
AFP Blog
FEBRUARY 14, 2006
Akimbo Shows that It ‘Cares’ - 2/14/2006 3:53:00 PM - Multichannel News - CA6307577 : "Akimbo Shows that It ‘Cares’ 2/14/2006 3:53:00 PM Akimbo Systems launched a new channel featuring public-service announcements and other nonprofit programming. The Internet-TV provider said its “Akimbo Cares” service was designed to help nonprofit organizations gain exposure and gather donations.
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
FEBRUARY 21, 2006
Bookshare.org Turns 4 One Book at a Time On February 21, 2002, we publicly launched our first Benetech initiative, Bookshare.org, www.bookshare.org, an accessible online digital library with just over 6,000 titles for print-disabled individuals, persons who are either blind or otherwise visually-impaired, have learning disabilities such as dyslexia, or have other physical impairments that preclude their access to the printed word.
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